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磬

磬

Translingual

Han character

磬 (radical 112 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土水一口 (GEMR), four-corner 4760₁, composition ⿱殸石)

References

KangXi: page 836, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24454

Dae Jaweon: page 1253, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2451, character 2

Unihan data for U+78EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		磬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (殸) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
殸	kʰreːŋ, kʰeːŋs
聲	*qʰjeŋ
謦	kʰeːŋʔ, kʰeːŋs
磬	*kʰeːŋs
罄	*kʰeːŋs
馨	*qʰeːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 殸 + 石 ‎(“stone”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): qìng (qing⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hing³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: qìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ch'ing⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chinq
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hing³
  - Yale: hing
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hing³
  - IPA ^(key): /hɪŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /kʰeŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	磬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	苦定切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰeŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰeŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɛŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɛjŋ^H/
Li Rong	/kʰeŋ^H/
Wang Li	/kʰieŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰieŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qìng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	磬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qìng
Middle Chinese	‹ kheng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s/
English	suspend
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	磬
Reading #	1/1
No.	10518
Phonetic component	殸
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	罄
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːŋs/

Definitions

磬

stone chimes
inverted bell (a Buddhist percussion instrument)

Japanese

Kanji

磬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: きょう (kyō)
Kan’on: けい (kei)
Kun: うちいし (uchiishi), むなしい (munashii), つきる (tsukiru)

Compounds

方磬 (ほうけい) ‎(hōkei): hōkyō, an instrument similar to the Chinese fangxiang

Korean

Hanja

磬 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

磬 (khánh)

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